| | | | | | | | | © Christian von Alvensleben: Klitschko Brothers 2001 | | | | | | STORIES: HELLO AND GOODBYE | | | | Complete online exhibition : 109 images here | | | STORIES: INVITATION | | | | Complete online exhibition : 74 images here | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | © Christian von Alvensleben: Alexandra Maria Lara 2003 | | | | | | STORIES: HELLO AND GOODBYE | | | | Complete online exhibition : 109 images here | | | In every encounter with the other during the course of a person’s lifetime, reciprocal influence, change becomes possible. As a photographer, Christian von Alvensleben has captured many of his formative encounters in impressive portraits. They are intense images of personalities who meant something to him, who moved him. In these pictures he allows us to participate in the direct interchange of the gaze, enables us to feel the tense connection between the photographer and the other.
Thanks to his versatility in styling and image composition, Christian von Alvensleben does justice to the subjects portrayed and confers the mark of his unique pictorial language on the motifs. We are able to view 109 photographs from a copious body of work and, above all, an eventful life. These are portraits incorporating numerous implicit stories and arousing our curiosity.
Text: Sebastian Lux, Stiftung F. C. Gundlach | | | | | | | | | | © Christian von Alvensleben: Lars Schall 2021 | | | | | | | The presentation is a part of a series of different "STORIES" from the artist’s archive: alvensleben.com/stories.html | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | © Christian von Alvensleben: Etagere mit Zitrone 1976 | | | | | | STORIES: INVITATION | | | | Complete online exhibition : 74 images here | | | | In the rich oeuvre created by the photographer Christian von Alvensleben, the still lifes of set tables are a particularly magnificent chapter. | | | | | | | | | | © Christian von Alvensleben: Op Art 1988 | | | | | | The photographer has regularly presented his photographic works of table art in magazines such as Ambiente, Feinschmecker, Vogue and Casa Vogue, Schöner Wohnen, but above all in Architektur & Wohnen. The selection shown here was created between 1967 and 1988 and gives us an insight into a good two decades of advanced table culture which often has an aura of timelessness today. We see a photographer whose immense pleasure and ambition lie in realizing the greatest possible degree of creative freedom even in his commissioned work.
His tables are pure joie de vivre and embody originality whether they are lavishly decorated in a baroque style or reduced in a very cool way. Visual pleasure is guaranteed.
Text: Ulrich Rüter, photography and art historien | | | | | | | | | | © Christian von Alvensleben: Lalique 1974 | | | | | | | The presentation is a part of a series of different "STORIES" from the artist’s archive: alvensleben.com/stories.html | | | | | | unsubscribe here
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